Russian Yak-40 Demonstrates Superconducting Electric Propulsion

Maxim Pyadushkin August 02, 2021
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The Yak-40LL flying lab uses a superconducting electric motor during a first demo flight at the recent MAKS 2021 air show.
Credit: CIAM
MOSCOW—A Yak-40LL testbed modified with a nose-mounted propeller driven by a 500 kW (680 hp) low-loss superconducting electric motor was demonstrated in flight for the first time at Russia’s MAKS 2021 airshow at Zhukovsky, Moscow, in late July. “The flight was routine, the aircraft systems and the...
Maxim Pyadushkin

In addition to writing for Aviation Week Network, Maxim holds a key position at Russia's Air Transport Observer magazine. In the past he was in charge of several ATO’s sister aerospace publications and earlier worked for Moscow-based CAST defense think-tank.

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